
The app is also necessary to set up five possible presets, accessible through capacitive touch buttons on the speaker. It serves as both a remote control for the system as well as an aggregator of all the music services you use, and accessing music or expanding your listening to other Bluesound speakers or BluOS-capable devices around the home is a lot more intuitive than it is with a lot of the competition. Setup is quick and easy via the BluOS app-available for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows, and/or OSX.

Height x Width x Depth: 8 x 6.7 x 5.9 inches.But we’re almost just as impressed with the speaker’s industrial design and ergonomics as we are with its sound quality-especially its proximity-activated capacitive touch controls, which remain invisible until your hand approaches the top of the speaker. The speaker features an immersive driver design dubbed Omni-Hybrid that purports to deliver 360-degree hi-fi sound, and in our experience it does exactly that as long as you’ll forgive it a bit of high-frequency roll-off from the backside. The Bluesound Pulse M provides full and neutral stereo sound from practically anywhere in the room.
